Shar has been in the design industry for over 11 years, and has put all of her years of experience into her goals of embracing and mentoring new home stagers and assisting in making the new Minneapolis Chapter vibrant and purposeful. For the last 5 years while growing her own staging business she has personally trained and mentored 4-8 new home stagers a year, all of which she encourages to join RESA and on keeping a high level of ethics.

Shar prides herself on training those around her, listening to their needs and empowering them to grow to their full potential, which she will continue to do while being the Regional Vice President for Kansas, Minnesota and Missouri!

Elizabeth Scruggs is Tennessee’s first State President for RESA, who helped launch the new RESA Greater Nashville Chapter, while also serving as VP of Membership for the chapter, she has been actively involved with RESA since day one! Elizabeth’s goals while being a RESA leader are to continue to focus on the growth of the new Nashville Chapter, and spread word of RESA across the state.

She feels strongly that building local chapter membership and involvement are two key components of successful chapters, and most importantly attending our annual RESACON, which she hopes to see more Nashville stagers at than ever this year! She feels so strongly about that, she has personally made it a goal of hers to try to initiate as many Tennessee members to attend RESACON as possible.

Elizabeth continues to promote that RESA is an excellent way to network and stay continually immersed in business, while receiving excellent training and education throughout the year.

Find out more about Elizabeth’s staging business, Superior Construction and Designhere.

Karen, who is on her second term as a RESA National Board Member, is passionate about educating the real estate community on the benefits of home staging. She cares about the organization and it’s continued growth and success. Her goal continues to be working towards making RESA the trade association for stagers globally.

In 2008 her love for teaching and her expertise in home staging culminated in a Workforce Development Course she created for North Texas home sellers offered through Collin College in Plano, TX. The course is designed to help anyone understand the value and importance of staging a home for selling in any market. Karen believes an educated consumer is her best client.

We look forward to continue our work with Karen on a National level with RESA while she continues to accomplish her goals making sure that our Local RESA Chapter’s are supported and Membership growth.

Learn more about Karen’s home staging business, Home Star Staginghere.

Amy Powers has been the Georgia State president since 2014 and Chapter President for the RESA Atlanta Chapter since 2008, and has many more things she would like to accomplish! She hopes to see education in staging expand to more agents having a clear understanding of what staging means, and why they must hire a RESA stager. She believes in the power of RESA and how it can positively impact stagers, as well as the impact chapters have in local communities. This is why we know Amy is a great fit for a national board position!

Amy continues to push forward with that mission by educating home owners, real estate agents, new stagers and the general public as the voice of staging on Real Estate Radio Atlanta, staying actively involved with the local RESA Atlanta Chapter, and being a mentor to new home stagers.

Amy is looking forward to seeing membership grow in Atlanta, and the rise of new local chapters, as she strives to equip other stagers to become leaders in the industry.

As a National Board Member, Amy’s goals are to continue to brand RESA as THE Industry Trade Association for Real Estate Stagers through education and business relations on a national level.

Audra Slinkey is President and Founder of the Certified Color Expert Training, Color Perfect Home Blog and the Home Staging Resource, an advanced home staging and redesign training company, as well as a RESA National Board Member. Audra is a huge advocate for all stagers and redesigners regardless of training background and the staging industry is her passion and she works to continue it’s growth, legitimacy and status daily.

As the President of the Home Staging Resource, Audra was the first staging training company to become RESA Accredited back in 2009. She has sponsored and supported RESA every year since it’s beginning and is a regular advocate of RESA membership to anyone who has gone through her training program.

RESA set the standard for the staging training industry and Audra is proud to have met that standard, we look forward to working with her on the National level, as we know how much she will bring to the organization.

Audra’s goal on the National level with RESA is to lend financial, resource, and networking support to the current RESA initiatives to grow and elevate the industry, as well as increase it’s membership. She has also made it her goal to help with marketing and public relations towards the real estate industry in order to increase awareness of the benefits of hiring a professional home stager.

Shauna Lynn’s main goal is to increase RESA’s presence and representation in Canada, which she feels will in-turn strengthen the home staging industry in Canada.

If you want to see someone who is passionately committed to the home staging industry, look no further than Shauna. She operates a thriving home staging and design business, she is the RESA Kitchener-Waterloo Chapter treasurer, as well as author of a home staging education program, designed for home stagers of all levels. She believes in the future of home staging, and wants to do her part to see it continue to grow in all areas and regions. Shauna takes a straight-forward approach to any position that she holds.

I provide guidance as needed, but also aim to empower others to take initiatives and grow.”

Other than growing RESA’s presence in Canada, she has a goal to expand the RESA resources (Canada and US) for home stagers, including education and training, vendors. She also would like to ensure that those entering the home staging industry do so with the right intentions, and with the right information. Shauna told us she wants to see more support for those that have not yet entered the field – she she hates to see so many home stagers that have invested in their training and invested in start-up costs, only to realize that this is not the right career path for them.

Melissa, who is on her second term as a RESA National Board Member has been dedicated to growing and inspiring new and existing home stagers since RESA’s inception, which made her a natural fit to work with RESA on the National level.

Melissa has invested a good amount of her time as a professional home stager doing speaking engagements in both the US and Canada educating Real Estate Agents on the importance of hiring a home stager, and speaking to new and seasoned staggers about how to grow their business. She continues to teach, mentor, and show the potential success of what home staging can do for homeowners and realtors as well as the profitability and potential business models for the stagers themselves.

Melissa continues to work hard on her goals as a RESA National Board member. She plans to engage national real estate and home related businesses to sponsor RESA in local and national events, as well as offering discounts or incentives to RESA members for using/buying their goods/services.

She also strives to bring more awareness to our industry and organization by creating an alliance with the National Association of REALTORS and national real estate brands, like Keller Williams, Coldwell Banker, Berkshire Hathaway, and more.

Lean more about Melissa’s home staging business, Rave ReViews Home Staging, here.

Orlando Reyes, the RESA Florida State President has made an impact in the entire Florida staging community. Orlando’s dedication to RESA has been crucial to the opening of the most new chapters in a single state, four chapters in one year!

His goal for 2017 is to increase real estate staging awareness statewide, while uniting all current and future chapters to work for a common goal.

I am a strong believer in sharing information, as knowledge is power. This benefits each of us in growing our individual business, the staging industry as a whole and the collaboration with one another.”

We especially look forward to seeing where Orlando’s forward movement takes the great state of Florida! He has worked vigorously this last year reaching out to every RESA member within his state while serving in his role as President Elect for the RESA Broward Chapter. We can only imagine what he has in store for RESA Florida’s future!

Helen Bartlett will continue to act as RESA’s Kansas State President, over the years she has worked hard to grow the presence of RESA in Kansas and is excited to announce that they had their first official RESA Kansas City Regional Chapter meeting, in November, which was a great success!

We love the story about how Helen found out about RESA because you can really see how passionate she is about this industry, and organization.

I, myself learned about RESA thru my husband on his flight back to Kansas City several years ago. He sat next to a home stager from Chicago on his flight and proceeded to tell her I was a home stager as well. She insisted that I check out RESA’s website as soon as I could. My husband came home and asked me if I had ever heard of RESA. I hadn’t so he told me to check out the website. From that moment on, I realized what a great organization it was with education, support and information on how to create the best version of myself through professionalism and excellence. I was committed to it from that moment and joined immediately. I still have the same passion when I think about RESA and am committed to making sure everyone who is in this industry has a chance to learn about RESA and hopefully participate. I often think if my husband wasn’t on that flight, that day, how much time would have passed before I learned of RESA. I’m still grateful for that day and that woman, whomever she is! I think when you are passionate about what you do, it’s easy for people to trust you and believe in what your are doing by seeing the benefits for themselves. There isn’t a stager or real estate agent I’ve met who couldn’t benefit from being part of this organization, no matter what level or experience or knowledge they have currently.

Helen has mentored and trained several interior design students and staging interns, who’ve reached out to her when they were struggling to get started. She learned by doing this she found great joy in giving them guidance by creating marketing plans that will help them grow their own business.Her love for mentoring coupled with her decisive nature and leadership skills will continue to help grow the RESA family in Kansas.

Alana, who has been the President of her local RESA Kitchener-Waterloo Chapter for the last two years has strived to increase local awareness and education for both RESA and the home staging community at large.

Alana’s hard work must be paying off, as we have seen her local chapter more than triple in size the past two years! She’s happy that the chapter members have become friends and trusted colleagues under her leadership. We attribute Alana’s success to her positive attitude, confidence, experience and her willingness to help others learn from her success.

Alana’s goals for 2017 as Provincial President are to continue to improve positive relationships in the industry and to facilitate new RESA chapter growth through social media channels, charity work and local real estate associations and boards.

Learn more about Alana’s staging business, Rooms in Bloom Home Staging, here.